G20 Protests: Police, Demonstrators Clash Outside The Bank Of England

guardian.co.uk:

Skirmishes have broken out between police and protesters outside the Bank of England as the G20 demonstrations in London get into full swing.

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Comments

[hortonhearsawho2]

England misses another Cup and this will happen again...

[RebelPatriot]

Remember that the Canadian government infiltrated the protesters at the SPP meetings a year ago and were going to incite a riot so to encourage the police to crack down hard.

these are classic methods of repression of legitimate protest by the State.

[hortonhearsawho2]

What's UR favorite ISM...

[RebelPatriot]

why do I have to have an ...ism? I am neither red nor blue. neither left or right. I see the system as it is, not as how its sold to the masses in propaganda used by both sides (phony sides really) to herd people into believing that they have a choice. But its all an illusion.

your comment completely ignores what I wrote.

[outnow]

Maybe Obama can use the demonstrations outside the meeting to his advantage. This leverage may be what he is looking for. Americans have given him no cause to change course that he can point to. The GOP is a joke as opposition but Progressives in the Democratic party are very upset. Obama knows that they will never vote Republican. So he has no reason not to continue to favor banks and investors over taxpayers.

Europe is in a crisis of unity. Germany and France do not want to spend on stimulus because of their limited ability to go further in debt. Eastern Europe is in default already and governments have fallen.

The US is opposing further regulation so there is little credibility to our proposals. Tax and spend and inflate scares the hell out of 'em.

[Spesabsquemetu]

Imagine... all those people protesting because they feel that their taxes shouldn't be used towards bailing out corruption, greed, fraud and deception.

They feel their tax dollars shouldn't be used towards upholding acts of corruption and deception that literally ROBBED THEM of their life savings, their pensions, their HARD WORK.

They want stockholders, and investors held accountable and responsible for their conduct.
These protests are sick and tired of investor welfare, bank fraud, reckless disregard for the PEOPLE'S INTERESTS, stockholder welfare, and other quid pro quo practices that they feel their elected leaders have engaged in - on their behalf!

They are sick and tired of being forced to pay for the corruption of others, while their pensions are robbed, their lives are taxed without their interests being represented.

What we see in London is only a stones throw away from happening right here in the USA.

[sababa]

Nicely put. Taxes are being cut in places such as Israel... http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/04/netanyahu-takes-office-israels-market-rises.html

[vinny]

next fall, things will hit the roof in the US

[Shashi0224]

The trolls must really be nervous today......I guess they have their instructions and their talking points....I see their buzz words...socialism, tyranny, Barry etc.....
If only they knew how brainwashed and ignorant they sound.......luckily they are so in the minority now I don't have to feel threatened by their ignorance and can now chuckle at their frustration.

[chaostheory]

G-8 was underway in Gleneagles July 7, 2005.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/memory-holes-in-the-floor/

[Rumplestiltskin]

I love protesters. More fun than a barrel of monkeys.

[mergina]

If bankers anger humanity to the breaking point, I MEAN REALLY TO THE BREAKING POINT, there is not a police force or army that will be able to stop them, ESPECIALLY in the armed camp we call America.

[Mexitli]

G20 Summit, London England, Protesters Break Windows at Royal Bank of Scotland
http://aztlanista.com/post/g20-summit-protesters-break-windows-royal-bank-scotland

[dontsellmyemail]

As more and more Americans find out that the crisis has been fabricated to consolidate wealth, they too will take to the streets. When retiring baby boomers find out that their pensions were gambled away, they will take to the streets http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/03/30/pension_insurer_shifted_to_stocks/. When the U.S government announces that they"re sorry but somehow the reckless spending has bankrupted our great country http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=armOzfkwtCA4&refer=home it will be to late to take to the streets.

[outnow]

Baby-boomers are too old to take to the streets. They sold themselves to Corporate America long ago. They will just sit down and take it. These are the Reagan Democrats. They are followers nowadays. Young people will not do anything either. Americans are too insecure to do anything but whimper. Bush and Cheney raped the Constitution and the boomers did nothing. So when Obama's plans favor bankers and investors, American will do nothing. That's why Obama was picked as the bankers' candidate - so people would accept his plans as being post-partisan. Obama is a nicer face for Corporate America. Bill Clinton was the same. He helped set up the rules so that the bankers and Wall Street could run amok.

[ohiomark]

Anywhere they have a sign that says "Capitalism isn't Working" is a perfect place for most of the Huff Po faithful.

Considering that the alternative to capitalism has never worked anywhere it has been tried, I'd say capitalism is our best bet.

Margaret Thatcher once said that "socialism doesn't work, because eventually you run out of other peoples' money".

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

[Roxie74]

When is the US going to wake up and take to the streets?

[ohiomark]

April 15th.

http://taxdayteaparty.com/

[Mexitli]

May 1st

[RJII]

we as foreclosures conitnue...many already have.

[hortonhearsawho2]

When Hp decides to, and not a moment before, why...

[poco767c]

You should read 'the world is flat' by Thomas Friedman. He has an interesting view of the anti globalization movement.
Essentially he believes that the the Anti-Globalization movement is fighting the wrong battle. Globalization can be a force for tremendous good and instead of stopping it we should bring every tool at our disposal to the task of shaping it into a compassionate globalization. Poverty is not the end result of growing businesses, poverty is the end result of greed.

[eugenegerard]

Your first mistake was reading Thomas Friedman. He is wrong just about everything. Your second mistake is reading Thomas Friedman.

[hortonhearsawho2]

read the world is flat by the evangelicals...

[Pulemerci]

One of the protesters signs amused me. "Capitalism isn't Working." How is communism working out in Cuba and North Korea? Or the former Soviet Union? We're slipping toward socialism which usually works well until you run out of somebody else's money.

[Bafun]

It's typical american to overlook the solutions between capitalism hard core and North Korea and Cuba communism . There is a lot of room between the both ways for something raesonable. May be a regulated capitalism?
You are obviously one of the few who is still pleased about America's situation right now.. It 's not because you are not hurt that everything is OK for others

[outnow]

Predatory capitalism is another form of fascism. Capitalism is just a means of exchange, not a religion. Capitalism can be tamed, just as fire can be used safely. Black-and-white thing is a distortion. Things aren't "either or."

[RebelPatriot]

it will only be tamed if we remove the oligarchy and the elites from the reigns of power, and their apparatchiks too.

the establishments only interest is to protect the establishment and their little systems of controlling the masses.

[eugenegerard]

Seems to be working pretty good in China. I guess that is pure capitalism or shall we say fascism. You really need to go back to school.

[Pulemerci]

Would you rather live there? China has 20 of the world's 30 most polluted cities. Estimates of excess deaths in China from environmental pollution (apart from smoking) are placed at 760,000 people per annum from air and water pollution (including indoor air pollution). China's large population and close living quarters has led to some serious disease outbreaks in recent years, such as the 2003 outbreak of SARS. Reports by the World Bank and the New York Times have claimed industrial pollution, particularly of the air, to be significant health hazards in China.

China does allow a limited degree of religious freedom although the state is officially atheist. However, official tolerance is only extended to members of state-approved religious organizations and not to those who worship underground, such as house churches.

Sounds like paradise. I'll take our economic slump over that failed system anyday.

[Roxie74]

Gotta beware of those Agent Provacateurs! There's always some undercover cops infilitrating protests starting trouble; oldest ruse in the book. I don't trust the main stream media reporting of the protests, of course they're going to focus on a few bad eggs to make the crowd seem crazy.

[RebelPatriot]

Yes, you are correct. I wonder why the street cameras were all turned off at this event? Can't have the truth recorded to counter the lies of the government when the crack-downs begin.

false flag events bring lots of benefits to the establishment.